About

We celebrate intensives in leadership and use our power for good. We help you do that, too.

Leela has over a decade of experience in entrepreneurship, public speaking, and nonprofit leadership. Her background includes coaching, ministry, and cabinetmaking, and she has lived and traveled around the world.

We are a mostly one-person shop with a powerful and brilliant following and a few choice assistants. The ongoing conversations with the community of intensives is vital to keeping the work both current and alive.

Work With Us

Embrace all the stuff that makes you “too much” for everyone else, and find your people: a market, employees, and colleagues who get you, love you, and routinely blow you out of the water. Know when to hire people like you, and how to find someone who fills in the holes in your brilliance. Keynotes, one-to-one work, and trainings available.

You

You are almost certainly an intensive and a leader. You shoot from the hip, laugh hard, and wear your passion on your sleeve. You take wild risks that pay off; you love to get the bit in your teeth and run; you know the fruits of pleasure are innovation, joy, and stamina.

Entrepreneur and ready to level up.

Founder and ready to build.

Executive and ready to lead a team of thoroughbreds.

You’re fed up. You’re ready to act. You need a shot of innovation, a kick in the ass, a plan, or all three.

Antiracism and Diversity

SIEF Typing Organizations: Is your company intensive or expansive?

People have SIEF types. They are intensive or expansive, high or low tolerance, possibly squished, tempered, or fried to a crisp. Institutions are a little less fine-grained, but they still have types. Intensive institutions are nimble, innovative, often but not always small (I’m looking at you, Google),…

writing a SIEF-smart job description

How do you hire people who will love their jobs? Step one: make sure it’s a fit. I’ve started looking at job postings with an eye to the SIEF qualities. Is it for intensives? Expansives? Some unrealistic blend? So often, organizations will write a job description that’s “We’re looking for a motivated…

SIEF-Smart Benefits Packages

People are not all the same. That’s obvious. If you’re in charge of people, your job is to make sure the people can do you the most good while also being happy and fulfilled, which works out better for everyone. You can pay them well, you can…

Welcome!

Welcome, intensives! We’re channeling our intensiveness, using our power for good, and building spaces and businesses where intensives can thrive. We celebrate intensiveness and make it a virtue and a joy. My clients are intensive entrepreneurs and executives learning to light a fire without burning the house down. Are you one of us? Come on in!

*an intensive is someone who is intense, who goes like hell and rests like the dead, who dials it to eleven or doesn’t bother. Learn more here and for even more, including the book, visit my other site here.